A mum who knifed her good friend six instances at a party claimed she was the sufferer and was left trying ‘like one thing out of Freddy Krueger’.
Gemma Sparks, 38, slashed Kimberly King’s physique and limbs throughout the bust up in August 2020.
The sufferer needed to be taken to hospital to be handled for her accidents.
Sparks was left with a tiny minimize that wanted no therapy however insisted she was lined in blood following the struggle.
Mum-of-one Sparks claimed a good friend in contrast her to the terrifying villain from A Nightmare On Elm Road because of her accidents.
Sparks denied wounding with intent and claimed she was appearing in self-defence, however was convicted following a trial and is now going through jail.
She accused Miss King of ‘flying’ a knife at her and claimed she didn’t know her sufferer ended up with a number of accidents.
The mum tried to persuade jurors her personal minor accidents have been so extreme she appeared like a sufferer from a horror movie.
She instructed Canterbury Crown Court docket: ‘[Kimberly] simply got here flying at me with the knife and stabbed me within the head with it, I spun her round after which threw [the knife] and ran.
‘My face was pouring with blood once I bought again within the automobile, my good friend stated I appeared like one thing out of Freddy Krueger, and so they have been wiping me down.’
Jurors have been instructed the pair clashed within the doorway of Miss King’s household house in Herne Bay, Kent, throughout her brother Darren’s party.
Sparks stated Miss King took a line of cocaine throughout a visit to an amusement arcade and her sufferer invited her to the deal with to gather cash owed.
She claimed Miss King then attacked her with a knife as a substitute of handing over the £50.
Prosecutors stated Sparks’ accidents have been inconsistent with a knife wound and argued she was the aggressor.
Jurors have been proven a photograph of her accidents which confirmed bruising, minor swelling and a slight parting of the pores and skin to her brow and under her proper eye.
Peter Forbes, prosecuting, instructed Sparks in cross-examination: ‘It's a small minimize isn’t it, to your head — did you search any medical consideration?”
‘Is that this proper, that you just introduced a knife with you?
‘Is that this proper, that you just determined you have been going to make use of that on Kim King earlier than you even bought there?
‘It’s true isn’t it, that you just attacked her with a knife?
‘There was no want to chop her on the arm, and the opposite arm and at the back of her shoulder.
‘Is that this proper, that you just supposed to trigger her actually critical harm and that's the reason you injured her with a knife?
‘Is that this proper, that you just didn’t contact the police since you knew you have been at fault?’
Sparks was visibly shaking within the witness field as she denied all of the allegations.
The sufferer’s brother, Darren King instructed the trial the party descended into chaos following the violent row.
He stated his sister was ‘sitting in a chair within the kitchen with wounds over her physique’.
‘Everybody [was] panicking attempting to carry them collectively,’ he added.
Sparks, who now lives in London, was cleared of possessing a blade in a public place.
She was launched on conditional bail and can be sentenced on June 24.
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